Hoosiers

“Includes the great personalities of the game—Larry Bird, Rick Mount, and the maniacal Bobby Knight—yet keeps the locus local, social, and intimate.” —The Boston Globe

Praised by the New York Times as “a knowing, respectful and caring look at heartland America” and containing a new foreword by legendary player Bob Plump, this is a book every basketball lover should own. The best of Phillip Hoose’s classic writings are included here with a fresh look on Indiana’s favorite and most beloved sport. A new edition of a well-known Indiana classic, Hoosiers profiles some of the world’s most famous basketball players and coaches—Larry Bird, Bobby Plump, Damon Bailey, Steve Alford, Stephanie White, and Bob Knight among them—along with Indiana towns, schools, and programs. The ultimate book for the diehard fan, Hoosiers: The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana explores Hoosier hysteria in all its glory.

“To say this little gem is a sports book is to say The Sun Also Rises is about bullfighting.” —Scripps Howard News Service

“Phillip Hoose examines the phenomenon of Indiana basketball with wit and whimsy.” —U.S. News & World Report

“If you’re a Hoosier Hysteric, call time out and go buy it; if you’re not, reading Hoosiers will be like studying the strange ways of a cult that worships gym shoes.” —Playboy

“This superbly written piece of sports journalism will alternately tickle the funnybone and pluck at the heartstrings of basketball fans everywhere.” —Booklist